![]() ![]() Even if I knew deep down that to try and find love on the basis of being someone’s fetish object was damaging, I could still try. Everything is laid bare: the desire to be beautiful, the fear that non-whiteness meant you were unworthy of love and admiration, and the wonderful/horrible discovery that Yellow Fever may be your golden ticket. ![]() Still to this day, it’s the most admirably honest account of what I imagine it’s like to have grown up as an Asian American girl in the 1990s. The first thing I ever read by Jenny Zhang was her personal essay, Far Away From Me, in Rookie Magazine. ![]() LEE: “Zhang gets many of the little things right about a modern immigrant childhood, like the grandparents who suddenly come in and out of your life.” The reading, writing, and editing processes were completed separately for each review, but they are meant to be read together. This week, two of our writers, Christina Qiu and Chris Jesu Lee, review Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart. Plan A hopes to bridge gender divides in the community by providing full bodied intersectional perspectives on sexual politics and race. ![]()
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